Southern Tier Tripel

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Lakewood, New York USA

Nice frothy and long-lasting head with orange color for the body. Smell was thick and fruity. The taste however was nothing really exciting. Alcohol was present in the taste and so was some fruitiness. But overall it was unbalanced. The hops were in the wrong places and the beer was too astringent and had a kind of gross bitterness to it. Also it had an annoying metallic taste. Not friends with this beer.

Orange straw, small white head. Very light aroma of fresh orange, hops, and slightly barnyardy. Very feathery weight for a 9% alcohol beer. If I had to guess the alcohol of this beer if I didn’t know I would say 5-5.5%. It tastes like dry orange and apricot marmalade. Fresh, clean, and slightly hoppy. Not very complex by any means, but a very drinkable tripel.

Luminous orange in the glass with a white ring of head. Little activity on the pour. Aromas are baguette at first, followed by oats and cereal and a juicy lemon citrus on the nose. Fuzzy palate is tangy and off -- highly astringent. Hops aren’t present -- the bite seems to come from sharp cereal malts. I think of tripels as refined and delicate. This one is rough like a saison.

On the pour a great aroma flows from the bottle and floods the room. Fabulous, fruity, bready, almost hefeweizen nose. Great stuff. Pour is equally good, up there with the best tripels. Nice and light golden hue with a thick, THICK head that leaves solid lacing down the glass. Unfortunately, the flavor fails miserably in comparison to the actual beer. Tinny, metallic taste with very little of the fruity maltiness it advertises. It’s shooting for a bit of hoppiness, but it blends awfully with the tripel brew and comes off as a completely failed mixture. Bad steely aftertaste much like the taste itself that stays in the mouth for a looong time. Not a good effort here for Southern Tier... steer clear of this one. Yuck.

I was a little dissapointed with this. Gold pour with a bread and banana aroma. A bread and citrus taste. It was different but I was hoping for more.

22oz bottle,bright yellow gold color, with a white head, leaving laces, sweet honeyed pale malt nose, with some floral hop leafy, piney notes, with a faint coriander spiciness, a light fruity, warming aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, mild honeyed pale malt, fruity, flowery hop grassy character of citrus and candied lemon peels, with a hint of spiced coriander, with some lemony leafiness, with a note of sweet cany sugar in a warming mouthfeel, leading towards a honeyish, warmth, grassy, citrusy hop bittering finish.

Decent Tripel, but nothing to write home about. A little too sweet. Hops is too prevelent. More like a sweet hoppy ale.

12 oz bottle: Aroma has a nice light bubblegum, clove, spice, light amount of yeast if any, and some light alcohol notes. Appearance is a clear golden but slightly amber pour with little to no head that diminishes into a soapy white film. Taste is decent nicely spiced, somewhat dry on the back of the throat. Sweet alcohol twang to this beer makes it interesting. Wheaty, sharp, dry, mouth coating, and spiced. Overall, It’s a nice and refreshing Belgian-esqe tripel. I would by it at the bar if it was on tap. Cheers!